Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC. Kevin McNeilly is an associate professor in the Department of English at UBC. He has been interested in poetics and philosophy since graduate school: he wrote his Master’s thesis on the poetry of Robert Bringhurst, and his doctoral dissertation on the later work of William Butler Yeats. He has written and published scholarship and critical essays on a variety of literature, media and music, including work by writers, thinkers and performers such as Charles Mingus, Elizabeth Bishop, Jan Zwicky, Miles Davis, and Robert Creeley. He is a member of the “Improvisation, Community and Social Practice” research initiative. In addition to his academic publications, he has had poems published in Canadian Literature and The Antigonish Review. Embouchure (Nightwood Editions, 2011) is his debut poetry collection. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
Selected Articles and Books At UBC Library
McNeilly, K. (2011). Embouchure. Gibsons, B.C: Nightwood Editions. [Link]
January 26, 2012, 2.00pm to 3.00pm at the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Kevin McNeilly’s debut poetry collection, Embouchure, compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939. This series of vignettes betrays a broad and detailed knowledge of the players’ lives and work, yet reads like a collection of conversational anecdotes shared between the musicians and those around them. Rather than focusing on the solid facts of their lives, McNeilly brings to life the characters they inhabited and stories that surrounded them, all in a vibrant, slangy dialect that adeptly reproduces the feel of the period.Within the course of Embouchure’s thirty-seven portraits, Buddy, Satch, Bix, Jabbo, Cootie, Cat and the rest are resurrected in their smoky, brassy, sepia-toned glory as figures deeply steeped in their own mythos. Despite embracing the fictional aspects of their lives, however, McNeilly styles these remarkable men and women with pure love and admiration, not only for their shared history and contribution to the evolution of jazz, but also for the pure, loud, messy beauty of the music itself. In this stunning and highly readable debut, McNeilly boasts finely honed poetic chops, proving that heart remains the first and finest ingredient in any truly virtuosic solo.For registration, please go to: http://www.kevinmcneilly.eventbrite.com
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by Green College.This presentation will place the aging of Canada’s population in an international context. It will consider implications of population aging for health services and systems (especially in relation to cognitive impairment, mobility in aging, and home care); and it will address the research opportunities of more longitudinal lenses and emerging scientific perspectives. Anne Martin-Matthews has recently completed two terms (2004-2011) as the Scientific Director of the Institute of Aging, one of 13 national Institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Since coming to UBC in 1998, she has held positions as Associate Dean Research, Associate Dean Strategic Initiatives, and Dean pro tem in the Faculty of Arts. She has been a member of the Department of Sociology since 2008.
Under her leadership, the CIHR Institute of Aging led the development of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), a 20 year study of 50,000 Canadians aged 45-85. The CLSA was launched in 2009. The Institute of Aging has also developed strategic initiatives on Cognitive Impairment in Aging, on Mobility in Aging, and on Health Services and Systems for an Aging Population. The Institute is an associate member of the ERA-AGE2, and participated in FUTURAGE, leading to the development of a European Roadmap for Research on Aging. International partnerships were developed with China, Japan, France and with the UK.
UBC Library Resources
Martin Matthews, A., & Canada. Health Canada. (2002). The health transition fund: Seniors’ health. Ottawa: Health Canada. [Link]
Matthews, A. M., (Canada), H. T. F., Canadian Health Research Collection, & Canadian Electronic Library (Firm). (2002). Seniors’ health. Health Canada.
Martin Matthews, A., & Phillips, J. (2008). Aging and caring at the intersection of work and home life: Blurring the boundaries. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Martin-Matthews, A. (2009). Bridging research and policy in aging: Issues of structure, process and communication. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(3), 228-231. [Link]
Martin-Matthews, A. (2011). Revisiting widowhood in later life: Changes in patterns and profiles, advances in research and understanding. Canadian Journal on Aging, 30(3), 339. doi:10.1017/S0714980811000201. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Mathabo Tsepa completed her PhD in Environmental Education with Dr. Nashon in the Dept of Curriculum & Pedagogy. Her work connected the National University of Lesotho and UBC to promote the exchange of cutting edge best practice research and policies about learning regions. She was also involved in the UBC Go Global program. By stressing Africa’s impact on western higher education, the Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) hopes that the university realizes the necessity of a stable African Studies Program. The presence of such notable speakers on campus shows that the University of British Columbia shows its continued dedication to follow through with the complete and justified creation of global citizens.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Dasgupta, S., & Centre for Science and Environment (New Delhi,India). (2011). Environmental education: A book of activities : Climate change, natural resources. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment.
Robottom, I. (1987). Environmental education: Practice and possibility. Geelong, Vic: Deakin University.
Aldrich, J. L., & Kormondy, E. J. (1972). Environmental education: Academia’s response. Washington: Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences.
“Managing Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Acute Care for Elders Units:” UBC Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong”
March 1, 2012 – 7:00-8:30pm at Richmond Public Library’s Brighouse Branch Library
Presented by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library, the Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community. Who is a geriatrician? Someone who is dedicated to the health and well-being of our nation’s elders; someone who is dedicated to medically complex patient care involving interacting medical, neurological, psychiatric and social problems; someone who is on the front lines in coping with the changes associated with the graying of our society…and more! Dr. Wong is Clinical Professsor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Medicine, and is also President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society (CGS) — the first British Columbian to lead the organization in 20 years. As an expert on aging and geriatrics support, please join us as Dr. Roger Wong will bring a lively presentation and discussion to the community of Richmond, BC at the Brighouse Branch Library of the Richmond Public Library.
The IKBLC was featured on “This Week at UBC”, including a clip about the Live-in for Literacy initiative taking place at the Learning Center January 17 to 26.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Mathabo Tsepa completed her PhD in Environmental Education with Dr. Nashon in the Dept of Curriculum & Pedagogy. Her work connected the National University of Lesotho and UBC to promote the exchange of cutting edge best practice research and policies about learning regions. She was also involved in the UBC Go Global program. By stressing Africa’s impact on western higher education, the Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI) hopes that the university realizes the necessity of a stable African Studies Program. The presence of such notable speakers on campus shows that the University of British Columbia shows its continued dedication to follow through with the complete and justified ‘creation of global citizens.’
The Student Leadership Conference took place on Saturday January 14, 2012. As UBC’s largest student-run conference, the SLC provides over 1100 delegates with the opportunity to achieve their personal breakthroughs through engaging workshops and speakers. Watch this UBC This Week video for more information.
The next concert in the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday January 27th at 12:00 pm in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
“Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism” will consist of music by composers who were suppressed during the Third Reich. “Entartete Musik” was a term used by the Nazis to defame atonal music, jazz, and works by Jewish composers as “degenerate”.
The targeted composers included Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill, Goldschmidt, and Waxman. Many of them emigrated to the United States, and some had illustrious careers as film music composers in Hollywood.
Students of the UBC School of Music will present a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by Messiaen, Zemlinsky, and Schulhoff. They will offer a view into the musical world of Weimar Germany, and the artistry in defiance of oppression that was the musical world of Nazi concentration camps.
The concert series is directed by Leah Giselle Field. Admission is free.
From December 1 to January 31, 2012 you can provide feedback about IKBLC’s art exhibition, Rocks of Interest to a Young Geologist. “Rocks of Interest To A Young Geologist” By Ruth Beer
The photographs in this exhibition engage with ideas inspired by the formations and visible properties in geological rock samples. Many of the rocks presented in these photographs were collected by a young geologist last summer in the mountains of BC, Yukon and Nunavut. They were collected because they are tangible examples of time, material, form and events. From an artist’s perspective, in addition to formal and descriptive elements of color, texture and form, their intangible qualities are of interest as they reference dynamic shifts of contemporary experience juxtaposing our understanding of what we claim to know, the uncertainty of geological materials and forces that impact everyday life, and the romanticism of a future that is barely graspable.
